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John Hillcoat’s video for Massive Attack’s The Spoils combines a hypnotic, mesmerising facial metamorphosis through different mediums, with the music video debut from one of Hollywood’s biggest actresses, Cate Blanchett.

The landmark 50th edition of BUG's regular round-up of global music video creativity at the BFI Southbank in London demanded a very special guest. And there was one - none other than Steve Barron, who helped invent the music video as we know it.

The intriguing combination of voices and drums that is Scottish composer Anna Meredith's Taken gets a characteristically creative treatment from Ewan Jones Morris, who builds a mosaic of everyday things - lampshades, feet, cubes, jets, ketchup, etc - through multiple images and repetition to match the music's grand ambition. And it cost at least the price of a couple of dozen eggs...

Ringan Ledwidge makes a very rare return to directing music videos with an absolute riveter for Massive Attack's Voodoo In My Blood featuring Young Fathers (from the new EP Ritual Spirit), with top British actress Rosamund Pike in an encounter in a deserted London underpass with a very menacing floating orb.

Following the exceptional demand for tickets to the BUG Special: David Bowie, hosted by Adam Buxton, at the BFI Southbank in late February, a further show has been now been added, taking place at the ODEON Leicester Square in London on Wednesday March 9th.

The greatest of the great OK Go videos are generally known in shorthand as 'the treadmill one', or the 'Rube Goldberg Machine one', and so on. Now, the video for Upside Down & Inside Out will always be known as 'the zero gravity one'.